2015
DOI: 10.1038/srep12452
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Experimental demonstration of a quantum router

Abstract: The router is a key element for a network. We describe a scheme to realize genuine quantum routing of single-photon pulses based on cascading of conditional quantum gates in a Mach-Zehnder interferometer and report a proof-of-principle experiment for its demonstration using linear optics quantum gates. The polarization of the control photon routes in a coherent way the path of the signal photon while preserving the qubit state of the signal photon represented by its polarization. We demonstrate quantum nature … Show more

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“…Quantum communication is getting improved day by day with the improvement in current technological advancement. Quantum networking has a broad spectrum of applications, quantum devices such as quantum routers [3][4][5][6], quantum repeaters [7][8][9][10][11], quantum satellite have been developed recently by China [12][13][14], which claims itself to be secure. Security is an essential aspect of today's communication; in the present scenario, most of the data is shared and stored on the cloud, so there is always a threat to break into the data; for which high security of the data is essential.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Quantum communication is getting improved day by day with the improvement in current technological advancement. Quantum networking has a broad spectrum of applications, quantum devices such as quantum routers [3][4][5][6], quantum repeaters [7][8][9][10][11], quantum satellite have been developed recently by China [12][13][14], which claims itself to be secure. Security is an essential aspect of today's communication; in the present scenario, most of the data is shared and stored on the cloud, so there is always a threat to break into the data; for which high security of the data is essential.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…One of the most relevant devices for the operation of a quantum network is a quantum router, whose primary function in the simplest configuration is to send or route an incident photon into one of the two output channels [10]. Recently, there have been several theoretical and experimental proposals for quantum routers based on several different structures, such as CRWs [11][12][13][14][15][16], whispering gallery resonators [17][18][19][20][21], waveguide-emitter systems [22,23], superconducting qubits [24], and quantum electrodynamics systems [25,26]. In the latter context, Zhou and co-workers [11,12] proposed an experimentally accessible single-photon routing scheme comprising two quantum channels connected by a resonant cavity with a single-type three-level atom embedded in it.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…In recent years, single plasmon switch and quantum network based on the one dimen sional waveguide has become a hot topic of increasing attraction for researchers in the fie lds of quantum information processing, which is extensively investigated not only in theo retically [22][23][24], but also experimentally [25][26][27][28][29][30]. Recently, the first single photon router in the microwave regime via a superconducting transmon qubit coupled extremely efficie ntly to a superconducting transmission line [25] was experimentally realized and the first experimental demonstration of plasmon-exciton coupling between silver nanowire (NW) and a pair of SQD [26] was also reported, where the interparticle distance between the tw o SQDs range from microns to 200 nm within the diffraction limit and parameters includi ng the SP propagation length and the wire terminal reflectivity are experimentally determ ined.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%